Darwin Project: the battle royale will be "shut down" by the end of the year

Darwin Project entered the world of video games in a fortunate period for the battle royale genre, but, precisely for this reason, already saturated and which had already channeled millions of players to other titles.

Well, the developer of the game, Scavengers, has issued a statement in which the community is involved in a very important decision: the team will soon stop updating the Darwin Project, decreeing its end.

That of April was the last update, the servers will remain online until the end of 2020, only to be "shut down".

In the official blog, it is reported that the development team has struggled over the years to make Darwin Project competitive, but that in the end all efforts proved in vain. The battle royale has received several updates in recent months such as new maps, a system of classes, live events, it was also ported to PS4, denoting the commitment of the whole team and the love for the project.

Despite these continuous optimizations, the Darwin project has seen one progressive loss of players no longer interested in the offer proposed by the title of Scavengers or simply more enticed to play other products of that genre.

Simon Darveau e Amelie Lamarche they also thanked all the fans who continued to give feedback to improve the game:

We truly and deeply appreciate everything the community has helped add to the Darwin Project. We've received tons of passionate ideas and suggestions for improving the game. It shows how incredibly supportive you have been on this journey. We cannot thank you enough for your love and support over the past four years.

Last but not least, huge thanks to our amazing hard-working team, our partners, as well as our family and friends, who also contributed to the game, always there with wise advice and motivational insights, while keeping us at the same time. down to earth and focused. As for the future, the Darwin Project team will be redeployed to work on other projects.

Recall that Darwin Project was released in early 2018 on PC and Xbox One to then be published also on PS4. Some gameplay gems were found, as you can also read in our tried and tested written at the time, such as the presence of a sort of director who he could intervene at any time to move things.

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